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Quote by: Chancellor I don't think such a change should be entered into lightly. If you are only voting for the political party (an institution that should be abolished) then you're leaving everything up to the party bosses. Always be wary of giving more power to political parties.

This doesn't allow more power to the parties, but more control to the people on the parties and who they represent. While you may feel one political party would be good for leading the country, they may not have your paticular area of living as a priority, which then you can vote for the local party which will do best for your area..... to me, it seems more accurate to what the people of Canada want.

As for the second issue, I realize that Canada is a socialist country with this whole nanny state mentality that says it's the government's job to take care of its citizens from cradle to grave.

Please..... go educate yourself.

Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Canada is a constitutional monarchy with Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, as head of state;[22][23] the monarch of Canada also serves as head of state of fifteen other Commonwealth countries, putting Canada in a personal union relationship with those other states. The country is a parliamentary democracy with a federal system of parliamentary government and strong democratic traditions. Canada's constitution consists of written text and unwritten traditions and conventions.[24] The Constitution Act, 1867 (formerly the British North America Act) established governance based on Parliamentary precedent "similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom" and divided powers between the federal and provincial governments. The Constitution Act, 1982 added a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees basic rights and freedoms for Canadians that generally cannot be overridden by legislation of any level of government in Canada. However, a "notwithstanding clause", allows the federal parliament and the provincial legislatures to override certain sections of the Charter temporarily, for a period of five years.

We have much more democracy in our country then you're, by any stretch of the word. Just because our government isn't like yours doesn't make us Communist or Socialist..... get your act together before you spout out ignorant claims.

I imagine the rest of your post will be similar..... *sighs*

With that in mind, do you really think you can trust your government to have the monopoly over most of Canada's kids? Are kids really being harmed by having the opportunity to go to schools that are more-often-than-not better than government-run schools? Or is it that you people up there in Canada are just plain evil and think that anything even remotely smacking of religion is harmful to children?

You seem to have this feeling that our government is always out to brainwash us like your own.....

As it goes for us being evil because some oppose funding religious schools..... Have you ever heard of the seperation of Church and State? No I suppose not, considdering your current leader.

Many complications can arise when you merge the two, if you read your history you would know this.

We've had a similar issue here in the States with regard to school vouchers except that the private schools didn't have to be religious. The teachers' union has managed to keep school vouchers from coming to pass on a large scale and, so, the majority of America's children are stuck in these piss-poor government indoctrination centers that teach them all about exploring deviant sexualities but leave them unable to find major U. S. cities on a map or unable to read much more than the local dumbed down newspaper. I say all of that but, at the same time, if I were running a religious school I would try to stay as far away from government hand-outs as possible because with government hand-outs comes government interference.

Exactly..... interferrence can come from both directions, which is why it's an issue.

But our public schools are in no way similar to your own public schools, as I have gone from day one to graduation in a public school here.... my dad teaches in these public schools.... so I have a little bit of personal background and experience when it comes to teaching and education, as I also have had my own instructing experience, and I have also studied the differences between your country and mine in regards to public education.

Your teachers are not paid very well, and they really don't care too much about your education because of this for starters.

As for that idiot McGinty who said, "It's going to hurt our kids, it's going to hurt our province," they're not his damned children and they're not the province's children: the children belong to the parents.

I have seen public schools and I have seen private schools here, and the only real difference is the dress codes and the religous backgrounds... there is also the factor of smaller classes and people of the same commonalities being in one class, thereby being less stressful.... but how does that really help these kids when it comes to exposure on diversity?

The thing is, I have been through our public schools, and I got the education I required and besides the odd tool kids you get, I see no practical use for private schools unless you want to teach your kid a paticular way.

Then you can just home school or pay for a private school.

And there really isn't any difference in education between public and private here, because in order to be actually reconized as a school, there is a required level of education that needs to be taught..... in both. The only difference is the atmosphere imo.

I have no problem with private education, or religous education.... but once you start funding one, you gotta start funding them all.